Where to Give Birth in Hawaii (2026): Hospitals Compared with CMS Data
Hawaii has 16 hospitals that provide labor and delivery care, spread across 15 cities. This page compares them on two things: whether CMS has designated the hospital Birthing-Friendly, and the hospital’s overall CMS star rating. Four hospitals in Hawaii were excluded from this comparison because CMS’s current data marks them as not providing inpatient labor and delivery care.
4 hospitals on Hawaii’s general acute-care/critical-access hospital list were excluded because CMS’s current data marks them as not providing inpatient labor & delivery care.
Every hospital in Hawaii that provides labor & delivery care
| Hospital | Location | CMS Overall Rating | Birthing-Friendly | Maternal safety bundle adopted | Patient experience (HCAHPS) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adventist Health Castle | Kailua, Honolulu County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 78% would definitely recommend |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospital | Honolulu, Honolulu County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 5/5 stars · 83% would definitely recommend |
| Hilo Benioff Medical Center | Hilo, Hawaii County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 63% would definitely recommend |
| North Hawaii Community Hospital, Inc | Kamuela, Hawaii County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 77% would definitely recommend |
| The Queens Medical Center | Honolulu, Honolulu County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 76% would definitely recommend |
| Kona Community Hospital | Kealakekua, Hawaii County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 62% would definitely recommend |
| Maui Memorial Medical Center | Wailuku, Maui County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 63% would definitely recommend |
| Wilcox Memorial Hospital | Lihue, Kauai County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 70% would definitely recommend |
| Honoka’A Hospital And Skilled Nursing | Honokaa, Hawaii County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Kahuku Medical Center | Kahuku, Honolulu County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · 66% would definitely recommend |
| Kau Hospital | Pahala, Hawaii County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Kauai Veterans Memorial Hospital | Waimea, Kauai County | Not rated | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 83% would definitely recommend |
| Kohala Hospital | Kapaau, Hawaii County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Kula Hospital | Kula, Maui County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Lanai Community Hospital | Lanai City, Maui County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Molokai General Hospital | Kaunakakai, Maui County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · 77% would definitely recommend |
What CMS does not tell you
CMS has not published a hospital-level cesarean-delivery rate or a severe-maternal-complication rate in its current data release, and that is true nationwide, not specific to Hawaii, so this page cannot show either number for any hospital listed. A state-level NICU or perinatal level-of-care listing is also left off this page because it could not be verified against a current, authoritative source for Hawaii.
How we built this page
This list was built by filtering CMS Hospital Type to Acute Care Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals, then excluding any hospital whose CMS Maternal Morbidity Structural Measure (SM_7) is marked “Not Applicable (does not provide inpatient labor/delivery care).”
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital General Information and Maternal Health – Hospital datasets, data.cms.gov. File released 2026-08-13. Maternal-health measurement period: calendar year 2024.
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) patient-experience survey, data.cms.gov. Measurement period 10/01/2024–09/30/2025.
